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ERIC Number: EJ055100
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1972
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Coming of Age with the Delboeuf Illusion: Brightness Contrast, Cognition and Perceptual Development
Weintraub, Daniel J.; Cooper, Lynn A.
Developmental Psychology, 6, 2, 187-97, Mar 72
Testing Pollack's hypothesis that decreases in effective contour contrast (resulting from a decrease in receptor sensitivity with age or from a change in actual stimulus contrast) lead to decreases in illusion magnitude. Conclusions are questioned by Sjostrom and Pollack (PS 501 740). (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Contrast, Data Analysis, Perceptual Development, Psychological Studies, Responses, Visual Discrimination, Visual Stimuli
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Identifiers: Delboeuf Illusion